We are entering my favorite time of year.  SUMMER!!  Congrats to all the graduates this spring.  Specifically to my roommate Shantha, who recieved her PhD in Industrial Engineering.  And also to my brother Logan, who will be graduating from high school at the end of the month.  And while we’re at it:  Good Luck to my sister Hannah, who is leaving for China for an indefinite period of time.  I love you all!

Back to summer,  ah….yes.  Lazing around drinking lemonade…afternoon naps…swimming.  Running around barefoot…  That’s the way I remember it anyway.  More recently, as an artist and more specifically as a caricature artist, my summers are filled with lots of drawings.  Theme parks, county fairs and parties.  I’ll be there.

This particualar piece, which I call Hello Squirrel, was made as an example for a coloring book page.  Of course, once it was finished, I couldn’t resist coloring it myself.

Even if you haven’t read the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer, you’ve probably heard of it.  I read it recently, (I refused to see the movie until I read at least the first book).

First, let me apologize if you were intending to read the books and I have given something away to you by posting this image.  If I did that to myself I would kill me.  Someone ruined the 4th Harry Potter book for me, and although I was able (with some professional help) to forgive him, it stands as a warning to anyone, myself included, who might give away the ending of a story.

Ok, I’ll keep my narration to a minimum for the above reason.  I will say that as I read the books I got more and more sucked into the story.  I decided to use them as an excuse to do a little character design.  Anyone who has read the books (and probably everyone else, too) will understand this:  Edward Cullen or Jacob Black?  Vampire or werewolf?  Cold or hot?

Last weekend I participated in a Game Dev Jam.  That is what occurs when you bring artists and programmers together.  We try to make a game before the weekend is over.  Somehow we got two games going, and neither of them completed.  The game I was working on was a sawmill game.  I contributed by designing fun characters.  The character pictured here uses his hook to drag logs in the river towards the sawmill.  We hope to continue on these games at the next jam.